For those of you who enjoyed last week's Julius Shulman post
"Job 0127: Bubeshko Apartment, Exteriors", here's the sequel (or possibly prequel as the job number is one lower). This is
"Job 0126: Bubeshko Apartment, Interiors (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1945". The exterior photoset was undated, but it's probably safe to say they were taken at the same time (
MichaelRyerson dated a license plate in the previous images at 1945).
I initially couldn't work out the layout at the right of this picture. Luckily, all becomes clear below.
All from
Getty Research Institute
An article at dwell.com has an early blueprint for the apartments, as well as the text and image below:
Rudolph Schindler’s Bubeshko Apartments are legendary in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, their white stucco terraces spilling down the hillside like a chest of drawers pulled ajar. When the 5,000-square-foot apartment complex went on the market in 2004, filmmaker Joe DeMarie finally got to step inside, where he remembers being transported by its simple beauty. “I don’t throw around the word ‘genius,’” says DeMarie. “But Schindler was a genius.”
He wanted to buy it, but Luby Bubeshko, who’d owned and lived in the five-unit building for 66 years, was reluctant to sell to just anyone. In 1938, the 20-year-old Bubeshko had worked closely with Schindler on the building’s then-radical design and was adamant about protecting its legacy. If she didn’t find the right buyer, it was said, she would tear the complex down.
Luby Bubeshko eventually accepted Joe DeMarie's offer, and the rest is now history.
Here's a different angle on the shelves in the second picture above. The layout makes a lot more sense from this side.
www.dwell.com
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